Dual Identity:
Bloodstone's existence
was unknown to the general public, and it was similarly unknown
that he was Ahab or Frank

Occupation: Adventurer,
hunter,
soldier of fortune;
former movie actor
former Major in the army of Colonial
America
former hunter/gatherer

Group Membership:
Former member of the
Explorers Club, Monster
Hunters (Dr. Druid, Makkari, Namora,
Zawadi),
the crew of the Pequod (Ishmael, Queequeg,
others),
and an unnamed Vanir tribe (including Torg, and possibly Raa)

Base of Operations: formerly
a
series of strategic bases across Earth, including: (1) Bloodstone
Island, Largos, Tropic of Cancer, near the Caribbean Ocean (see comments),
as well as (2) Minibase-6, in Harlem, New York, (3) a base near
Moscow, Russia, (4) a mansion in Boston, Massachusetts, and at
least two others;
formerly the Explorer's Club, New York
City;
formerly Colonial America, @ 1776-1781;
formerly Northern Vanaheim (in the
region that
would become Scandanavia)

Powers/Abilities:
Ulysses Bloodstone
possesses a variety of abilities conferred on him via the
fragment of the Bloodgem imbedded in his chest. He can lift 5
tons and has enhanced speed, stamina, agility, and senses
(approximately
1.5 times that of an Olympic athlete). He has vast regenerative
powers, enabling him to recover from virtually any injury up to
the dispersion of a vital portion of his bodily molecules (some
sources claim he could regenerate if a single cell survived). The
period of regeneration varied with the severity of injury: to
regenerate a missing limb once took him about a decade, during
which time he slept in self-induced suspended animation. The
Bloodgem fragment granted him virtually immortality, rendering him
immune to aging and many conventional diseases. Elsa Bloodstone has
demonstrated immunity to vampire bites: Actually, her blood was pure
enough to destroy a vampire if consumed; the Bloodgem fragment itself
was an anathema to vampires; Ulysses's Bloodgem fragment may have
granted him similar abilities.

Bloodstone also possessed an invisible third eye on his forehead,
granting him a number of extrasensory perceptions, including the
ability to see human auras (permitting him to see people in the dark)
and the ability to mentally travel to one of the astral planes. He had
limited telekinetic powers and could also induce suspended animation in
himself, for at least a century at a time.

Ulysses Bloodstone was dependent on the Bloodgem to survive;
forced separation resulted in rapid death. Otherwise, he did not
require air, food, or water to survive, and he was immune to
aging and terrestrial disease.

He
has the reflexes of an
athlete and is experienced in virtually every form of combat and
martial arts devised by man, as well as possessing a vast
knowledge of weaponry. In the modern era he carried a stainless
steel Bowie knife, .45 automatics, gloves with spiked knuckles, a
sword capable of cleaving metal, a dagger with launching blades,
and a specially designed sawed-off shotgun which fired explosives
shells which he could psychically detonate. The shotgun could
fire five rounds before it required reloading. His modern costume
included a flak storage pouches for a variety of weapons and
ammunitions, as well as tough leather boots. He was equipped with
a series of weapons designed for use against vampires, including
a shotgun firing silver cross buckshot, an ultraviolet
flashlight, etc. The Bloodstone itself was as potent against a
vampire as a religious icon was in the hands of the faithful.

Bloodstone Island and
several of his other bases had advanced weaponry, etc. He
possessed a Lamp which contained a Genie he had enslaved years
ago, which served as his early warning system, lighting up during
supernatural encounters or other trouble, and transporting him to
said encounters if he so wished.

Height:
6'2"
Weight: 225
lbs.
Eyes:
Blue
Hair:
Blond

Distinguishing
Features: Glowing red
gemstone embedded in chest.

History:
(Marvel Presents#1 (fb)/Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe,
Deluxe Edition#16, p32/Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe,
Master Edition#2: Bloodstone/Captain America I#357/2(fb)) - The Man
who would become Ulysses Bloodstone was born approximately 8250 B.C.
(see comments), towards the twilight of the Hyborian Age, into a
small nomadic tribe who occupied Northern Vanaheim, which would
later be called Scandanavia. One of his tribe's foremost hunters,
he one night observed a meteorite crashing to the Earth. He
directed his subsequent hunting endeavors in that direction, and
one day when he spied a cloaked figure (Ulluxy'l), whom he
followed into a cavern, where he approached an advanced citadel.

(Marvel Presents#2
(fb)/Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe, Deluxe Edition#16/Marvel Universe#7(fb)) -
Ulluxy'l, a servant of the Exo-Mind,
sought a
human host for the Exo-Mind, and offered the savage a portion of
the power of the Hellfire Helix, channeled via
the Bloodgem. The savage was initially startled by Ulluxy'l's
appearance and tried to attack him, but Ulluxy'l psychically
immobilized him. Irradiated by the Bloodgem, the savage was
endowed with superhuman strength. Ulluxy'l sent the savage to bring his
tribe before
the Bloodgem as well.

(Marvel Presents#2
(fb)/Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe, Deluxe Edition#16) - The savage returned to
his tribe and demonstrated his power by overpowering a mastodon
or mammoth (or whatever the hairy elephant with the tusks are),
after which he fired an energy blast and then offered the "power
of the gods" to his people. They followed the savage to
Ulluxy'ls citadel, where Ulluxy'l performed an elaborate
ceremony, arranging the tribesmen in a geometric formation around
the Bloodgem, to access the powers of the Helix. The Bloodgem
issued its energies, , psychically draining the tribesmen's minds
and killing their bodies. However, the cosmic images and energies
channeled proved too much for the tribesmen, who broke formation
and thus disrupted the ceremony. While Ulluxy'l lamented the
failure of his plan for ultimate power, the savage lunged upon
the gem, causing it to explode into hundreds (see comments)
of fragments, destroying the citadel and even shattering the
mountain containing the cavern. One of these geometrically
perfect fragments imbedded itself in the savage's sternum; the
others were scattered across the planet.

(Marvel Presents#2
(fb)/Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe, Deluxe Edition#16) - Although his people had
perished in the process (see comments),
the savage had
become immortal. He dedicated himself to exacting revenge upon
Ulluxy'l, the being he held responsible for his people's death,
and eventually took the name Ulysses Bloodstone.

(Rampaging Hulk I#8/2
(fb) - BTS) - Kaballa
claimed that the Exo-Mind wished to observe the evolution of
humanity through disinterested eyes. To do so, it required a host
whose entire existence revolved around a single purpose.
Realizing that revenge would be an ideal purpose, the Exo-Mind
empowered Ulysses Bloodstone to survive for an indefinite period
and serve as its host, and gave him the purpose of killing
Ulluzy'l (whom Bloodstone saw as the director) and saving the
world from him. The Exo-Mind allegedly created (or directed) a
large number of the monsters Bloodstone fought over the years,
primarily to keep him motivated to go on living.

(Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe,
Deluxe Edition#16/Marvel Universe#7 (fb)) - For a hundred
centuries, Bloodstone pursued his goal of taking down Ulluxy'l,
while Ulluxy'l sought to regather the Bloodgem fragments. To keep
Bloodstone from reaching him, Ulluxy'l dispatched hordes of
extradimensionally born monsters to kill him. Bloodstone managed
to triumph over the many creatures sent against him, but only
succeeded in locating his archfoe a handful of times over the
millennia. When he lost Ulluxy'l's trail completely, and was not
involved in learning new languages, skills, or knowledge,
Bloodstone went into a self-induced suspended animation,
sometimes for up to a century at a time. On more then one
occasion he lost a limb during his career (Can you name these
monsters? see comments).

(Captain America:
Sentinel of Liberty#6/3 (fb)
- BTS) - Bloodstone observed Greek society, and how it eventually
fell under the Domination of the Romans.

(Captain America:
Sentinel of Liberty#6/3 (fb)
- BTS/Rampaging Hulk I#8/2 (fb)) - Bloodstone observed as the
Romans aspired to the ideals of the Greeks, but saw the Roman
senate was supplanted by the rule of Caesars.

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
At some point between this period (ancient China) and the modern area,
Bloodstone
confronted the alien dragon Fin Fang Foom, but the outcome of their
battle is unknown.

(Captain America:
Sentinel of Liberty#6/3 (fb)
- BTS) - Bloodstone observed as Britain's Parliament came about
because a cadre of feudal barons forced old King John to share
power with them.

(Rampaging Hulk I#8/2
(fb)/Captain America I#357/2(fb))
- Bloodstone was present alongside the Puritans, during which
time he battled a winged demon-like creature.

(Captain
America:
Sentinel of Liberty#6/3 (fb)) - In 1776, as Captain Steven Rogers
announced his plans to join the fight against England,
Bloodstone, refused to join the struggle, having grown
disillusioned with the pursuit of high ideals such as
independence, liberty, and democracy, and the subsequent failure
of the same.

(Captain America:
Sentinel of Liberty#7/3 (fb) -
BTS) - By 1781, Bloodstone had become convinced that the
efforts of such men as the Colonial Americans such as Steven
Rogers made democracy worth fighting for. He joined the American
army an ascended to the rank of major.

(Captain America:
Sentinel of Liberty#7/3) <1781>
- Major Bloodstone called out to Rogers--now dressed in what
would become his Captain America costume--and stopped Sir William
Taurey from shooting him in the back. Taurey was killed as his
bullet ricocheted off Rogers' shield.

(Marvel
Universe#7
(fb))
- In the 19th Century, Bloodstone, then known as Captain Ahab,
led his ship, the Pequod, in pursuit of a lighter
gray, if
not white, version of Giganto, which received the name Moby
Dick (see comments).

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
In the era of the "old west" Bloodstone took on the alias of the
Redstone Kid. During this time, he unsuccessfully tried to track down
the Living Totem.

(Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe,
Deluxe Edition#16) - By the early 20th century, Ulluxy'l had
acquired all but four of the Bloodgem fragments, while Bloodstone
had acquired a fortune through mercenary work and shrewd
investments.

(Punisher VII#14 (fb)) <1910-1923> -
Hearing of
Hellsgaard's loss of family to werewolves and subsequent imprisonment,
Bloodstone freed him and the two fought many monsters and vampires.
Dracula took the fight to the duo of Ulysses Bloodstone and Hellsgaard,
and threw the armored Hellsgaard through a portal into Limbo.

(Rampaging Hulk I#8/2
(fb)) - Bloodstone was a
biplane pilot.

(Bloodstone#4 (fb) -
BTS) <1930s> -
Bloodstone battled Nosferatu, the leader of a sect of Nosferatu
vampires. In a struggled described as an "airship debacle,"
Bloodstone nearly defeated Nosferatu, and apparently decimated
his forces.

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb) - BTS)
<World War II> - Bloodstone encountered the Blonde
Phantom during
the war.

(Strange Tales
I#73/Marvel Universe#4(fb)) <1956>
- Ulysses Bloodstone, using the alias "Frank," was
summoned to Mombasa Africa by his friend Museum of Natural
History Curator Lynn Avery to stop Grottu, a giant ant. As
Grottu and his legion of army ants approached Mombasa and passed
straight through the city, Frank realized that Grottu's goal was
to reach the wharf and the ships that would allow it to reach the
rest of the world. Frank shot off Grottu's antennae,
limiting his ability to control the ants, and then had the
natives gather a large supply of sugar from a nearby warehouse,
and had it dumped on top of Grottu. The other ants were
drawn to the sugar and Grottu's could not drive them off.
The ants ravenously consumed the sugar and then wandered back
into the jungle, leaving Grottu dead...or so it would seem...

(Marvel Universe#4(fb))
- Bloodstone followed
the trail of Grottu's destruction back towards it origins, into a
narrow mountain pass, when he encountered a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He
was assisted by the adventurer Zawadi, and the two managed to
drive the creature off. Bloodstone and Zawadi continued to follow
the trail, which ultimately led to a collapsed cave in the
Wakandan mountains. His only certain finding was that Grottu came
from underground.

(Marvel Universe#4) -
Six weeks later,
Bloodstone and Zawadi met at Hathaway's Explorer's Club, where
they were joined by Dr. Druid and the Eternal Makkari. After
sharing their adventures, the four formed the group the Monster
Hunters, to locate and end the threat of the source of the
numerous monsters plaguing the world at that time.

(Marvel Universe#5) -
The monster Gorgilla was
sent into New York on a rampage by the Deviant Kro. The Monster
Hunters followed Gorgilla and encountered him in Yankee's stadium
and the Statue of Liberty, where Dr. Druid mentally calmed and
managed to control him. The quartet decided to return Gorgilla to
the wild.

(Marvel Universe#6) -
Bloodstone and the
Monster Hunters took Gorgilla to Midnight Mountain , where they
were attacked by the Lizard Men, whom they fought off with
Gorgilla's aid. However, in the process, Makkari was captured and
Bloodstone revealed his true nature.

(Marvel Universe#7) -
After explaining his
origins to Zawadi and Druid, Bloodstone accompanied them in
pursuit of Makkari, encountering the immense Gigantus in the
process. Bloodstone stunned Gigantus with the rocket thrust from
they ship, and he escaped the monster, though it did cause their
ship to sink. Descending down a tunnel, they encountered other
monstrous creatures, eventually confronting Kro and freeing
Makkari. However, Kro unleashed other mutates against them,
including Tricephalous, and the Monster Hunters were forced to
allow him to escape.

(Marvel: The Lost
Generation#2 (fb) - BTS) -
The Monster Hunters were joined by Namora.

(Marvel: The Lost
Generation#2) <1958> -
Following psychic emanations tracked by Druid, the Monster
Hunters traveled to a Long Island research center, where they
encountered the soon to be First Line: Black Fox, agent Scott (Effigy),
Liberty Girl, and Yankee Clipper, who had come at Scott's request
to investigate security breaches at that facility. They were
attacked by a series of monsters, which proved to be humans
mutated by a Skrull device. The Skrull escaped, and Effigy used
an alleged transformation by a Skrull energy weapon to pretend to
develop new metamorphic powers (which he, being a Skrull, had all
along).

(Tales
of Suspense I#9/Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
Ulysses was drawn to Veracruz by stories he had heard of Diablo from
sailors in Trinidad, and witnessed Diablo's boasting of how easily
Earth would fall before his might. However, the unnamed man outsmarted
the invader with a simple cigarette lighter, creating a flame and then
snuffing it to fool Diablo into thinking the people of Earth could
match his powers.

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
Bloodstone encouraged the other Monster Hunters to contribute to his
journals regarding their encounters with the various
monsters.

(Marvel
Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
sometime after 1960, Bloodstone encountered and defeated Gor-Kill the
Living Demon.

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
Bloodstone befriended would-be author Lewis Conrad and the two shared
stories of monsters. Conrad revealed his encounter with Taboo to
Bloodstone.

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) -
Bloodstone arrived in Chicago to track down the Brute That Walks, but
the creature had already disappeared. He found Howard Avery, the
Brute's alter ego, who revealed his secret to Bloodstone over drinks.

(Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe,
Deluxe Edition#16) - In the latter part of the 20th century,
Bloodstone had established headquarters in six different
locations across the globe, each with hand-picked operatives.
By this point, he had become very
proficient
at modern technology, as well as applied technology.

(Bloodstone#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Approximately 18
years ago, Bloodstone met and married a woman named Elise, who
adopted his last name. Eventually Elise gave birth to his
daughter, Elsa

(Marvel
Assistant-Sized Spectacular#2/3) - Not long after Elsa was born Ulysses
walked around with her in Elsa's room and talked to her.

(Bloodstone#1
(fb) -
BTS) - Ulysses and Elise separated when Elsa was two
years old. Ulysses distanced himself from both,
and Elsa never knew him as she grew up.
After the break-up, Ulysses established
a mansion in
Boston, Massachusetts, which served to house many of the relics and
other items he had collected over the years. The house was cared for by
the vampire Charles Barnabus, who was also named to be the executor of
his estate.
Bloodstone also befriended an eccentric Polishman named Mr.
Dluga, as well as his son. At some point, he also befriended the
Frankenstein monster, who came to occasionally stay at his
mansion, eventually acting as its caretaker. The monster,
sometimes using the name Adam, sometimes accompanied Bloodstone
on missions. Bloodstone trusted Adam to give his daughter Elsa a
fragment of the Bloodgem in a choker (the
Bloodstone choker, of course), when she was old enough.

(Nova IV#33) - Sphinx pulled Bloostone out from the
timestream and pitted him, Basilisk, Moonstone (Sofen), Man-Wolf (John
Jameson) and Gyre, one of the Fraternity of Raptors, against the
champions of his elder self, which included Black Bolt, Darkhawk, Mr.
Fantastic, Namorita and Nova.

(Nova IV#34) - Bloodstone fought Mr. Fantastic in
Vanaheim and was defeated when Mr. Fantastic adjusted the fuses on
Bloodstone's time delay shells, blowing Bloodstone up and knocking him
out in the process. Bloodstone's team ultimately lost and the elder
Sphinx claimed both Ka Stones for himself.

(Nova IV#35) - Bloodstone quickly realized that his
shotgun was not enough to deal with the elder Sphinx, empowered by two
Ka Stones. Sphinx was ultimately stopped by Nova (Rich Rider) and
Bloodstone was presumably returned from where he came from.

(Marvel Presents#1) -
Bloodstone was drawn to
the menace of the monstrous Creature from the Sea, summoned by
the Possessor (inhabiting the body of a Flutist) to serve as his
new host. Sensing the connection, Bloodstone incapacitated the
Flutist, and the Creature wandered off. However, the Possessor
then emerged from the Flutist's form, and considered taking
Bloodstone's form instead. After forming a mind-meld with
Bloodstone, the Possessor fired an energy blast through his
chest, incapacitating him.

(Marvel Presents#2) -
The Possessor continued
to review Bloodstone's origins via mind-meld, but Bloodstone
eventually confronted him on the astral plane and apparently
destroyed him. Bloodstone's gem identified his fate as being
intertwined with that of actor Brad Carter, and when director P.D.Q.
Werner offered Bloodstone an acting job, he accepted, intending
to stay close to Carter until he could determine their link.

(Rampaging Hulk I#3/2 -
text/Official Handbook
of the Marvel Universe, Deluxe Edition#16) - Bloodstone worked in
film alongside Carter and Werner for a period of time. During
this time, Werner scouted an island as a location for a movie.
Investigating the island, Bloodstone found that it had formerly
been known as Largos (see comments).
Renamed Bloodstone
Island, it became his Bloodstone's main base of operations.

(Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe,
Deluxe Edition#16 - BTS) - Ulluxy'l allied himself with
Conspiracy, a group of four others assembled by the Exo-Mind to
complete the five beings necessary to channel the Hellfire
Helix's full energy into Earth.

(Rampaging Hulk I#6/2
(fb) - BTS) - Bloodstone
submitted a folder to the United Nations, detailing the existence
of Bloodstone Island and his right to it.

(Rampaging Hulk I#1/2)
- Six months later,
agents of Centurius smuggled a Bloodgem fragment onto an ocean
liner departing from Rio de Janiero, the same ship on which
Bloodstone was traveling. Accompanying Brad Carter, Bloodstone
fought Centurius's agents--who sought to capture either
Bloodstone or his gem, after which he was introduced to Samantha
Eden, a freelance journalist. However, the ship was then attacked
by the monstrous Goram, who rent a hole in the hull, causing the
smuggled Bloodgem fragment to fall to the ocean floor. Bloodstone
pursued it, but was incapacitated by Goram, who escaped with the
fragment.

(Rampaging Hulk I#2/2)
- Goram delivered the
Bloodgem fragment to Centurius and then sent Goram to attack
Bloodstone Island. Bloodstone used the island's defenses to
contain Goram, but Killer Shrike, an agent of the Conspiracy
arrived and freed Goram, intending to follow him to learn who his
master was. Bloodstone subdued the Shrike, while Brad Carter
followed Goram and was captured by Centurius's agents.

(Rampaging Hulk I#3/2)
- After learning that
several scientists had been abducted, Bloodstone sought out Tony
Stark to help investigate and to learn if S.H.I.E.L.D. had any
further information. After a brief battle resulting from the
usual case of mistaken identities/purposes, Bloodstone and Iron
Man joined forces and tracked Centurius to his lair (based on the
last coordinates transmitted by Carter's ship). However, Ulluxy'l
confronted Centurius as well, only to learn that Centurius was
actually secretly part of the Conspiracy, who had conspired to
expel Ulluxy'l from their group. Bloodstone destroyed Centurius's
robots and defeated Goram, but then confronted Centurius just as
he utilized the Bloodgem fragment he had acquired to slay
Ulluxy'l. Centurius' then activated his island's self-destruct
mechanism and escaped, forcing Bloodstone and Iron Man to rescue
Centurius' prisoners--with the aid of S.H.I.E.L.D.--and flee as
well.

(Rampaging Hulk I#4/2)
- S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Eric
Koenig dropped Bloodstone off at his own island, where he offered
Samantha Eden a position as his public relations agent to aid in
his worldwide struggle against and investigation of the
Conspiracy. Bloodstone then meditated on his own Bloodgem
fragment and learned of the existence of the Exo-Mind, the
intelligence within the Hellfire Helix and Bloodgem. The Exo-Mind
told him of the Otherworldly Gods/Elders who wished to use the
Bloodgem to transform Earth's dimension into a chaotic world
similar to their own.
Samantha Eden was allowed to return to
her
apartment in France to consider Bloodstone's offer, but she was
then confronted by Domino, an agent of the Conspiracy.

(Rampaging Hulk I#5/2)
- Bloodstone and Brad
Carter traveled to a Manhattan hotel, and Bloodstone was ambushed
by the "Death Suite," a trap set by the Conspiracy;
Bloodstone destroyed the trap.
Meanwhile, Conspiracy agents destroyed
Bloodstone Island and blew up a subway in Greenwich Village. In
addition, another Conspiracy agent delivered the Modular Man to a
New York hospital, where he collected the Killer Shrike before
meeting up with another Conspiracy agent. Domino convinced
Samantha Eden that she must distance herself from Bloodstone due
a threat he posed to the world.

(Rampaging Hulk I#6/2)
- Bloodstone tracked the
energy impulses from the Death Suite to a control room in the
suite above. There he encountered several Conspiracy agents who
acted as empathic batteries and channeled the combined mindforce
of the Conspiracy against him. Bloodstone's own power, channeled
through his Bloodgem, overcame his attackers, and he met up with
Brad Carter and Samantha Eden and regrouped at his Minibase-6, a
bar in Harlem owned by his ally, William Brandon Montague III, a.k.a.
Billy Brand. His computers analyzed a programming tape from the
"Death Suite" 's control room, giving only the vague
message "Yesod is in Cancer" (see comments).
Bloodstone sent Carter to investigate the loss of communication
with Bloodstone Island, and three days later Bloodstone himself
appeared before the United Nations, declaring his sovereignty of
Bloodstone Island, and requesting the UN's assistance and support.
Bloodstone's meeting was interrupted by
the
monstrous Sharzan the Elemental, who battled Bloodstone and
eventually stunned him, allowing Kaballa (a member of the
Conspiracy) to transport them both to his subterranean base

(Rampaging Hulk I#8/2)
- The stunned Bloodstone
was devastated to hear Kaballa reveal that he had been a pawn of
the Exo-Mind and that his entire 10,000 years of existence had
just been for the Exo-Mind's enjoyment.

According to Kaballa, eventually the Exo-Mind decided it wished to
experience death through Bloodstone, since its own life is eternal. At
the same time, it decided, having experienced all it could through
innocent eyes, it wished a new perspective. To this end, the Exo-Mind
organized the Conspiracy (five members, including Ulluxy'l) to usurp
Bloodstone's gem. They would gain its power in exchange for providing
this new perspective.

Bloodstone was brought
before the Conspiracy, where one of its members, Dr. Juden
Bardham, a cardiologist, cut the Bloodgem from his chest. The
Conspiracy left Bloodstone for dead, traveling to the cavern in
which Bloodstone had gained his power millennia before, and
prepared to perform the ceremony to gain its power. However, the
Exo-Mind instead absorbed the Conspiracy members and used their
energies to coalesce the Bloodgem fragments into a single,
monstrous crystalline creature. Reborn in the Bloodgem creature,
the Exo-Mind traveled to and rampaged through New York. However,
residual Bloodgem energy in Bloodstone's corpse reanimated him,
and he made his way from the Conspiracy's underground citadel to
confront the Bloodgem creature. Now absolutely focuses on a sole
purpose, Bloodgem used his third eye to access the astral plane
on which the Exo-Mind existed. His chronic exposure to the
Bloodgem's energies enabled him to survive the Exo-Mind's
assaults and penetrate the outer mind/form, and to confront the
very Hellfire Helix itself. Disrupting the Hellfire Helix,
Bloodstone severed the Exo-Mind's connection to the Bloodgem. The
Bloodgem creature shattered into countless fragments, while
Bloodstone's body decayed into a lifeless skeleton.

Brad
Carter arrived at
Bloodstone Island, where he was slain by an agent of Centurius.
Domino confronted Samantha and revealed that he had merely been
distracting her to prevent her from allowing Bloodstone to be
distracted from his narrow-minded purpose, which would have made
him unfit for the Conspiracy's plot to defeat him.

(Captain America
I#357/2) - Baron (Helmut) Zemo
and Batroc's Brigade (Batroc, Machete, Zaran) located the
skeleton of Ulysses Bloodstone within the Museum of Natural
History. Their psi-sensitive agent, Tristram Micawber confirmed
the bones to be Bloodstone's, and then Zemo removed the sternum
to which the Bloodgem fragment was formerly attached, and gave it
to use as a divining rod, with which they might seek out the
Bloodgem fragments; Zemo sought to use the Bloodgem to resurrect
his deceased father, Heinrich Zemo.

(Captain America
I#358-362 - BTS) - Despite
interference from Captain America and many others, Zemo's allies
utilized Bloodstone's sternum to successfully collect the
Bloodgem fragments, but when they tried to resurrect Zemo, they
instead found his body possessed by the Exo-Mind. The Exo-Mind
attacked all involved in the Bloodgem hunt and planned to renew
its plot to take over the Earth (or the Universe). However,
Crossbones, who had sought the Bloodgem fragments for his boss,
the Red Skull, shattered the Bloodgem (and the head of Zemo's
corpse) with a crossbolt. The corpse and the Bloodgem fell into
an active volcano.

(Bloodstone#1-4 - BTS)
- Elsa Bloodstone
inherited the Bloodstone choker and set on a series of adventures
as a monster hunter in her own right.

(Marvel Monsters: From
the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 - BTS) - Elsa
found her father's journal and used it as the starting point for a
monster database she was compiling.

Comments:
Created by John Warner, Len
Wein, Marv Wolfman, Mike Vosberg, and Bob McLeod.
Ulysses Bloodstone was named by Stan Lee, and designed by John Romita,
Sr.

Bloodstone wins the award
for most appearances in the last ten years (real time), for
someone who's been dead for close to 30 years (real time). You
see Bucky and Uncle Ben Parker a lot, too, but Bloodstone's way
cooler! This guy might have been active anywhere in the last 10,000
years, and I'm all for seeing more of him. Where was he in World
War II? Where was he during the age of Camelot? The Old West?
World War I? American Civil War? Vietnam (though that's a bag of
worms I hate to get into...some folks just don't understand the
sliding timescale and topical references! ) - Since this profile's first
publication,
Bloodstone has been revealed to have been active in the Old West and in
WWII in the Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone book.
- Madison

The
letters page in Marvel
Presents#2 contains a detailed essay on how Bloodstone came
about, including the fact that the story that started in Marvel
Presents#1 was originally intended to be ten ten page
installments in the series Where Monsters Dwell, which was
cancelled before the serial ever came about.

The
Rampaging Hulk story
considers Bloodstone Island to be in the
Caribbean Ocean, while
the
OHotMU Master Edition says in the Pacific. Both sources state in
to be in the Tropic of Cancer, which as I understand it is a
horizontal band parallel to and north of the equator. However, in
Rampaging Hulk#2, they travel twelve-thirteen hours by jet-skimmer
(along the water surface) from a New York harbor to Bloodstone
island. That sure sounds closer to the Caribbean to me, but I'm
no geography expert.However,
to reach the Pacific, they'd have had to have crossed America,
right?

Marvel
Presents#1 describes
Bloodstone's origin as occurring in the 81st Century B.C.,
whereas the OHotMU Master Edition specifies it as closer to 8250
B.C. Pay your money, take your choice.

The
excellent story in Captain
America I#357-362 would make it appear that there were only six
Bloodgem fragments, as the assembled group restored the Exo-Mind.
Perhaps the volume of gem fragments assembled was not complete,
but still sufficient to restore the Exo-Mind. Perhaps the
hundreds of fragments coalesced into a mere six over time, as
they were gathered by Ulluxy'l.

The deaths of
Bloodstone's people
were not shown, and so it is certainly possible that one or more
survived. The Anachronaut Raa is a primitive man and a look-alike
for Bloodstone. Whether Raa's
Hill People were the same as Bloodstone's Vanir
tribe, or whether Raa just existed after Bloodstone and found one
of the Bloodgem fragments is uncertain. I prefer the latter.

I'm
not sure who the monsters shown here are, but a few people have guessed
that they are Grendel and the dragon fought by Beowulf.
That remains unconfirmed, so here's a link to the Big
Motherprofile, which contains
everything I know about
Beowulf.
And the true answer, courtesy of Roger
Stern himself:

"Who was that
monster?"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know, but I wanted to thank him...

Seriously, that was the first time either creature had been shown. I
just asked Jason Armstrong to give me a couple panels of Bloodstone
fighting big ugly monsters over the ages, and he did.

Nice job, Jase!

-- Roger

Re: Defenders
II#9: since I wrote this, I talked to Kurt Busiek, and it was
definitely Bloodstone in Defenders#9.

You
can read all you want
about the story of Moby
Dick in the actual book, by Herman Melville, or in
Marvel Classic Comics#8, which adapts it. It's worth a mention in
this profile because Ulysses Bloodstone recalled it in a
flashback, but we're not including any more than that, b/c that
story hasn't actually been adapted to the Marvel Universe.

According to Samantha Eden's
notes, Bloodstone Island was allegedly the former base of the
Russian Gargoyle (father of the Gremlin) who had fought the Hulk.
This information regarding the Gargoyle
is suspect. I BELIEVE
that information is based on the story in the first part of
Rampaging Hulk I#1, which has since been revealed to have
actually been part of Bereet's
fictional film series. That
doesn't mean that the Gargoyle might not have set up a base
there, but the information is suspect. Similarly, any information
on the Island's location based on that story is suspect.

"Yesod is in
Cancer" -
Yesod is a reference to Kaballah, while Cancer is a reference to
the Zodiac. They never did follow up on that, although the
character Kaballa obviously has ties to the Kaballah, and
Bloodstone's island is in the Tropic of Cancer.

Tristam McCawber for some reason in one of those Bloodstone Hunt issues
stated that Ulysses Bloodstone was born about 20,000 years ago. I
suppose we must list that as a "mistake on the part of the character"
(e.g. McCawber misspoke)--Per Degaton.

Rampaging Hulk#8 shows a montage
of images of Bloodstone's past, which I loosely placed in the
above profile. Some likely dates/periods were given by our own
Loki:

pirate/swashbuckler
- the height of the traditional pirate era was the 1500 and 1600s.

with biplane - Since the first
plane flew in 1903,
that's the earliest dates. Unless he was a WWI pilot the most likely
era he would have flown a biplane would be the 1920's and 30's.
I
think it was Word War I, personally--Snood.

Puritan - Cromwell and the
Puritans ruled England
between 1649 and 1660, so that era is the most likely IMHO - the
movement apparently started in the late 16th Century (1500's) and
lasted until around the 18th century.

Shakespeare's time/Renaissance
- Shakespeare -
1564 to 1616.

in addition, I have several other encounters that are really hard to
pin down chronology-wise...most from the Bloodstone series, and briefly
mentioned.

Encounter(s) with Dracula -
1459 A.D. up until
Bloodstone's death in the modern era, though either could have been
time traveling (Bloodstone#2)

First befriending Frankenstein
monster. Most
likely after the monster was revived either in the modern era or before
(see the comments from the Frankenstein monster, regarding his
continuity). He may have been revived as early as the 1960s OR it could
be that he is tied in to the modern era somehow (#1).

Acquiring a set of embalmed
internal organs
(possibly kidneys) from the First Dynasty. This would hint the First
Egyptian Dynasty, @ 3100-2900 B.C. However, this does not indicate that
he acquired them at this time.

Acquiring Aladdin's Lamp, or
another lamp, with a
Djinn/Genie inside it, which was enslaved by Bloodstone. Bloodstone was
granted three wishes, and his first wish was for everlasting wishes. He
set the lamp to detect trouble and then take you to it (#2). The original Arabian Nights
stories
supposedly date back to the 9th century, so at least that far
back--Loki.

Battling subhuman cannibals in
the Gobi (#2).

Wrestling alligator men in
Ecuador (#2).

Trapping zombi-priests in Haiti
(#2).

Fighting alongside N'Kantu, the
Living Mummy,
against the forces of darkness (#3).

Acquiring an Aleutian Manitou
effigy doll (#3).

Acquiring a set of Neolithic
Scrying Stones from
the Leng Plateau (#3).

Acquiring a Chaldean Penitence
Flail (#3).

Acquiring a Micronesian Votive
Idol (possibly
Dagon) (#3).

Acquiring a trio of shrunken
heads from Papua, New
Guinea (#3).

Encounters with the Living
Mummy. Unless time
travel was involved, these took place in a narrow window in the modern
era, as N'Kantu was inert until the modern era, as published in 1973.
Bloodstone was slain in a comic published in 1978, so there can't be
much more than a year of overlap of their activities in Marvel time.
Interestingly, N'Kantu ended up in
possession of one
of the Bloodgem fragments, and it was collected from him by Captain
America in Captain America I#361.

Rampaging Hulk#7 did not
feature Bloodstone, but rather a back-up Man-Thing feature.

I think most of the
flashbacks in Nextwave should be taken with a grain of salt. Some of
them could've happened, but most just screw up continuity too much to
be included in history.
--Markus Raymond

(Nextwave#8 (fb) ) - Ulysses
caught the Blight Beast of Krakow and the Hideous Felch-Monster of
Bihar Province for the training of his baby daughter. He tossed Elsa
with a spoon into a pit with the Blight Beast. After she had killed the
Blight Beast he wanted her to circumcise the Felch-Monster.

(Nextwave#8 (fb) ) - When her
parents were away Ulysses' robot Hate Mother taught teenage aged Elsa
about monsters. When Elsa gave a wrong answer she was tortured by Hate
Mother.

Vanaheim

Conan fans should show some familiarity with Ulysses Bloodstone's
homeland of Vanaheim. This land lay to the north of Conan's
homeland of
Cimmeria. It, along with Aesgaard, formed part of a land called
Nordheim. The people of Vanaheim were called the Nordheimr Vanir (known
for red hair), the people of Aegaard, the Nordheimr Aesir (known for
blond hair).

The history of Vanaheim is
somewhat sketchy. In Conan the Adventurer#2, a priest mentions (on page
20) that in the days of Atlantis "the Vanir dwelled in a distant land".
The Hyborian Age essay mentions that the Vanir reached Vanaheim during
the period from about 14,000 to 10,000 BC. Savage Sword of Conan#141
reveals that at some point a group of vampires attacked the Nordheimr.

Thor fans should show some
familiarity with the name "Vanaheim". As should be obvious, the Vanir
were very much prototypes of the Vikings and Scandinavians. (As noted
in Bloodstone's entry in the OHotMU Deluxe Edition#16: Book
of
the Dead, modern Scandinavia lies where Vanaheim was situated.) In
Savage Sword of Conan#179, a Nordheimr Vanir invoked "Woden's eye...",
and we saw the "Great Falls of Hammergodt, named for the ancient
thunder-god of the Nordheim peoples".

--Snood is quick to point
out that it would have been earlier incarnations of Odin and Thor
worshipped at these times. The modern incarnation of Asgard is
currently believed to have developed @ 2000 years ago.

After Conan's time, the Nordheimr
fought the Pictish empire and Hyrkanians. Vanir adventurers moved into
Stygia, usurped power, and forged a southern empire which they named
Egypt. (The early pharaohs had these Vanir conquerors as their
ancestors.)

As the Hyborian Age ended, great
migrations took place. Niord
Worm's Slayer, a Nordheimr warrior seen in
Supernatural Thrillers#3, lived at around this time. Nordheimr migrated
to the Vilayet Sea (which later became the Caspian sea), where they
served as the ancestors of the Aryans. The Danish people are of Vanir
extraction.

The people of Nordheim
invoked deities with names such as Bragi (CTB I#17),
Wodun (Savage Tales
I#4, Conan the Savage#3 and#10, Conan Annual#7), Thor (Conan of the
Isles), Woden (Savage Sword of Conan#179), Hodar (Savage Tales I#4),
but their main deity was the Frost-Giant Ymir, who was served by his
first-born, a daughter named
Atali. Based on Supernatural Thrillers#3, Ymir's worship continued
until at least circa 8,000 BC. See the Ataliprofile for a
description of the
Nordheimr beliefs about Ymir.

--Per Degaton

In case you care,
Bloodstone lived nearly 2000 years AFTER Conan--Snood.
I suspect some of the images we've seen
represent
efforts by Marvel writers to use Bloodstone to replace the likes of
Conan and Solomon Kane, who are both characters licensed from Robert E.
Howard. They might as well shoot for Doc Savage, too! Godzilla it too
much of a stretch, I think.

In the OHotMU and in
the image above, they show
a picture of the Creature by the Sea, but color it green. That's
because it was colored green on the cover to Marvel Presents#1.
The real creature is orange

Thanks to David A. Zuckerman for correting the story number from Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty#6.

Profile
by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Ulysses Bloodstone should be distinguished from:

BLOODGEM - power item, conduit for Hellfire Helix,
allegedly created
by extradimensional race of elders to conquer other dimensions, served
as conduit to Alpha + Omega Stones to empower Guardians of the
Galaxy, formerly held by Ulluxy'l Kwan Tae Syn, shattered into
fragments by being who would become Ulysses Bloodstone, fragments
empowered Ulysses Bloodstone + Maha Yogi + others, apparently required
five guardians to complete ritual necessary for their crossing of
dimensions
--Marvel Presents#1

BLOODGEM -
see Godstone.
The source of power to
Man-Wolf/Stargod. a.k.a Moongem and Weirdstone--Amazing Spider-Man I#124

BLOODSTONES
- soul fragments collected by
Belasco, as he collected each fragment from a soul it became
increasingly corrupt; when he filled his pendant with all six
bloodstones he would be able to summon the N'Garai to Earth
--Magik I#1

MOONGEM -
artifact brought to Kree-Lar and
empowered by alpha + omega stones, mutated ajes'the to become one of
the past Guardians of the Galaxy, empowered Moonstone (Bloch +
Sofen)--Captain America I#169

Lifestone Tree - formed from
numerous stones of power, such as Alpha and Omega Stones, slivers of
these stones gave power to many superhumans, formerly protected by the
original Guardians of the Galaxy
(app-exo)--[Thunderbolts#45], 46